[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/29/22 21:58, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 8:56 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/29/22 20:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/29/2022 8:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 1/29/22 20:11, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>                      But even though Microsoft and Linux are
>>>>> pretty far from each other in many aspects then they do share
>>>>> an interest in looking at Rust as replacement for C.
>>>>
>>>> I will not be holding my breathe waiting for Unix to be re-written
>>>> in Rust.
>>>
>>> Old commercial Unix'es will not be rewritten. Thee will be lucky
>>> if they are even maintained.
>>
>> Real Unix is still alive and well and being maintained at least as 
>> good as Linux.
> 
> Tru64 is officially dead.
> 
> HP-UX last major release was 2007 and production of the HW (Itanium) has 
> stopped meaning that it is close to dead.
> 
> Solaris is hanging in a thread. Oracle has laid off a lot of engineering 
> and rumors continue to go around that it will be killed off.
> 
> AIX is the only one that seems in good shape support wise.
> 

I said real, not proprietary.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.  pretty much anything that didn't drink
the SYSV KoolAid.

bill